On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 12:31:16 +1200 Rob Stockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 12:21, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 00:05, you wrote: > > > Good day > > > How difficult is it to set up internal mail - that is, between my > > > box and my wife's NT box? She often needs to forward mail to > > > me... At the moment we both pop our mail from our respective ISP > > > mailboxes. > > > > Not very, read up about fetchmail, procmail, and a mail transport > > agent. postfix is a good choice. You will also need a pop3 server. > > > > http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/ > > http://www.procmail.org/ > > http://www.postfix.org/ > > http://www.eudora.com/qpopper/ > > > > There are other competing projects for the last 2. > > AFAIK pop3 is included by default through xinetd and is listed as > ipop3 in the services list. fetchmail-procmail-postfix works fine for > me. no, xinetd does not provide the pop service, just a route to get to the pop service. you need a pop server, which there are several university of washington imap server courier imap cyrus imapd qpopper don't be fooled by the imap names, they do pop and imap. xinetd does not provide services itself. it directs tcp/udp traffic to the appropriate daemon. > -- > Rob Stockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >
